Katy Perry, Salma Hayek, Usher and a surprise appearance from the Village People top the glam circuit of the year at the Cannes bashes.
Elle Fanning and Katy Perry stole the show at the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala on Thursday, May 19. It is the last big bash of the festival and the most prestigious, located about 30 minutes outside Cannes.
Paris Hilton … is still on the list for amfAR. Models Toni Garrn and Karlie Kloss are now regulars, and Uma Thurman is a permanent fixture.
At amfAR on the grounds of the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc, one of these things is not like the other. The Village People have yet to draft a beret-wearing, bicycle-riding, baguette-eating stereotype in to their band for this special appearance.
Irina Shayk and race car driver Lewis Hamilton.
As for getting away from Cannes madness, David Unger and Three Six Zero entertainment went large earlier in the week with helicopter transport to their lunch.
Inside, Unger (far right) welcomed guests Sebastien Besson (CEO of the Ace of Spade champagne house, Armand de Brigand) and Usher, in town promoting his role as Sugar Ray Leonard in “Hands of Stone.”
Usher with the real Roberto Duran after the “Hands of Stone” premiere. Someone should have told the audience “no mas.” The famed (“no more” in english) quote from the Leonard-Duran 1980 boxing match is a part of sports history, but could have applied to the 15-minute standing ovation for the biopic.
Edgar Ramirez (who plays Duran), Ana de Armas, and the real Roberto Duran.
At the Weinstein Company party for “Hands of Stone,” Toni Garrn is barefoot because that’s yacht protocol …
… unless you’re Harvey Weinstein, of course. In a real power move, Harvey need not remove his shoes on the Weinstein yacht.
Directors Nicolas Winding Refn and Jim Jarmusch ported the boxing “fist pose” to other parts of Cannes, striking it at Col Needham’s IMDb dinner party …
… as Oscar Jaenada (far right) brought it to the Vanity Fair party on Saturday night at the Hotel du Cap.
VF had a golden hour bash, starting in the day…
… and transitioning to night.
VF host Graydon Carter welcomes Livia Firth (left) with Anna Scott Carter. HBO partnered on the dinner.
The idyllic early summer south of France sunset provided this postcard from the festival party scene with Salma Hayek and Chloe Sevigny.
Warner Bros. President Sue Kroll and Brett Ratner inside the du Cap.
Robert De Niro received a tribute at the festival, tied to his role in “Hands of Stone” as boxing trainer Ray Arcel.
A peek inside Amazon’s five-picture joint party at the popup of Paris club Silencio.
The HFPA lived up to their “global” moniker with a hot party in the opening days. Lilla Soria, HFPA president Lorenzo Soria, Sony Pictures Classics Co-President Michael Barker, Caroline Baron, and SPC Co-President Tom Bernard.
Jury president George Miller, Jeff Skoll, and Fox studios president Jim Gianopulos made the scene at the benefit for Filmaid International.
The HFPA’s most social savvy duo: Lorenzo Soria and Munawar Hosain scoped out their bash.
Paul Allen’s yacht party made a comeback this year with a more upscale crowd than recent years: Mick Jagger, fellow rock royalty in the form of Elvis offspring Riley Keough, Kate Hudson, recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance, Kristen Stewart, Heidi Klum, and the host played Pink Floyd guitar solos partied at sea. Cellphones were frowned upon.
The theme of the event was “enchanted garden” and included a live sculpture model greeting guests waiting to board the shuttle boats out to the yacht.
Millenium’s Avi Lerner checked in with Meir Fenigstein at a cocktail party promoting this fall’s Israeli Film Festival in LA.
IMDb’s Col Needham, Chaz Ebert, and TIFF’s Cameron Bailey, who gets to enjoy Cannes as a guest, not a programmer.
